Eight days rest is long enough to throw off the timing of any team’s batting. It takes a game or two to get back to what you had before. It didn’t help that the games were in an unfamiliar and unfriendly ballpark, whose home team had just found their groove during the Cleveland series.
Can the Rockies recover from this? Of course they can. The first game was a blowout. In the second game, they managed to hold the Red Sox to a mere 2 runs (too bad that was enough to win). Tonight, they can hopefully take it the next step and finally win. Being in Coors Field should definitely help. And remember, the Rockies are still better rested than Boston, who just struggled through a full 7 game series (and who lost 3 in a row). Tonight could be quite a comeback.